Richard Power
List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Power is involved.
Articles
2013 Hedging and rounding in numerical expressions Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 193–223 | Article
Previous accounts of hedges assume that they cause language to become vague or fuzzy (Lakoff 1973); however, hedges can actually sharpen numerical concepts by giving explicit information about approximation, especially where bare numbers appear misleadingly round or precise. They can also tell… read more
2000 Integrating content and style in documents: A case study of patient information leaflets Information Design Journal 9:2/3, pp. 161–176 | Article
We envisage a novel computer tool for producing technical documentation, in which the author specifies the desired content and style, but the exact wording and layout is determined by the system (including versions in languages the author need not know); a prototype of such a system is being… read more